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Windows 7: Can't connect to Win 7 shared from XP

Hi all, I'm having a hell of a time trying to connect to my shared folders on my Win 7 RC machine from my XP machine. I have my shared folder permissions set to 'full control' for 'everyone'.

On my XP machine I click to open my win 7 machine from the workgroup and I get the username/password screen. The username is already filled in like this: WIN7PC\john. I type my win 7 password for john user account and I get an error that says: \\win7pc not accesible. You might not have permission to use this network resource ... multiple connections to a server by same user ... etc.

I am logged into my XP machine as user 'john' as well.

PS. I am able to access the win 7 share from my Mac. I am also able to access my XP shares from the Win 7 machine.

What am i missing? This worked fine with Vista shares from my XP machine.

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Hi all, I'm having a hell of a time trying to connect to my shared folders on my Win 7 RC machine from my XP machine. I have my shared folder permissions set to 'full control' for 'everyone'.

On my XP machine I click to open my win 7 machine from the workgroup and I get the username/password screen. The username is already filled in like this: WIN7PC\john. I type my win 7 password for john user account and I get an error that says: \\win7pc not accesible. You might not have permission to use this network resource ... multiple connections to a server by same user ... etc.

I am logged into my XP machine as user 'john' as well.

PS. I am able to access the win 7 share from my Mac. I am also able to access my XP shares from the Win 7 machine.

What am i missing? This worked fine with Vista shares from my XP machine.

If your user account on the W7 machine is John
And the user account on your XP machine is John
Then they should be automatically logging onto each other as long as the password is the same for both accounts.

I actually had already tried to make the password the same on both machines but it did not work so I changed them back .. the problem was that I did not restart both machines . Thanks guys!

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